Open Typing Derby Database

I love the idea behind opentdb.com.

It’s a great concept that allows a minigame to never die out by letting the community keeping it fresh by adding more and more questions.

I also think that such a good concept could be implemented for Typing Derby as well.

Just like Trivia, people could add their own paragraphs about various topics (History Facts, Essays, Book Extracts) between 50-100 words which will get randomly picked at every match, making them feel more new and original.

I think this has great potential to give more uniqueness to the gamemode, while also somehow preventing the players to type the same text over and over (if I had a penny for every “Martian” I typed).

I don’t really see the sense. It currently draws from Project Gutenberg, which has thousands of books. There’s already an immense amount of material that it’s pulling from.

I thought about it when I was designing it and I felt like making it simpler than the Trivia database, hence why I didn’t make a OpenTDD.

However, I could always make a megathread where people could post paragraph suggestions that could easily be inserted into the database.

I’ve gone ahead and made a megathread here. Typing Derby Paragraph Megathread

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  • Dr. Wallace Breen

Just incase you do that mega thread

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